THE

SCRIPTURE TESTIMONY

TO THE

MESSIAH:

AN

INQUIRY WITH A VIEW TO A SATISFACTORY DETERMINATION :

OF THE

DOCTRINE TAUGHT IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES

CONCERNING

THE PERSON OF CHRIST.

BY

JOHN PYE SMITH, D.D.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

" A Deo discendum est quid de Deo intelligendum sit: quia nonnisi se

auctore cognoscitur.” HILARIUS.

THIRD EDITION,

IMPROVED AND ENLARGED,

LONDON:
JACKSON AND WALFORD,

18, st. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD ;
HATCHARD AND SON, PICCADILLY; J. H. PARKER, OXFORD; AND

T. STEVENSON, CAMBRIDGE.

1837.

LONDEN: PRINTED BY R. CLAY, BREAD-STRRET-HILL..

CONTENTS OF VOL. II.

BOOK III.

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ON THE INFORMATION TO BE OBTAINED CONCERNING THE PER-

SON OF THE CHRIST, FROM THE NARRATIVES OF THE

EVANGELICAL HISTORY, AND FROM OUR LORD'S OWN ASSER-

TIONS AND INTIMATIONS

4

Chap. I. On the Narrative of the Miraculous Conception. ,

PRINCIPAL Notes.-Griesbach on the initial Chapters of

Matthew; p. 7.—Löffler, Bevans, Hahn, and Olshausen,

on Luke and Marcion; p. 12.-Paulus, Leighton, Charnock,

and Hartley on the Miraculous Conception ; pp. 19, 23.-

Leclerc on the Discrimination of genuine and spurious

Writings ; p. 24.-Kuinöl and Knapp on the “fulfilment”

of Passages from the 0. T. p. 26.-On the Star, the Visit

of the Magi, and the Massacre at Bethlehem; p. 26.-On

the Ebionite Gospel ; p. 27.-On apostolic Allusions to

the Miraculous Conception; p. 28.–Olshausen on the

Fulfilment of the Prophecy in Isaiah ; p. 30.

Chap. II. On the Evidence relative to the Person of the

Christ, which may be derived from the Office and Testi-

mony of John the Baptist . . . . . . . . .

33

PRINCIPAL Notes.-On the translation of John i. 15, 27;

p. 39.-On that of Luke i. 17; p. 42.- Michaelis and

Rosenmüller on the Power and Authority of Christ ; p. 43.

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CHAP. III. Declarations, Intimations, and Admissions of Jesus

Christ concerning himself . . . . . . . . . . 44

Capit. I. Declarations made, or acquiesced in, by Jesus Christ,

elucidating the Import of the Appellation, Son of God .

46

Sect. 1. Son of the Most High ; Luke i, 32 , ..48

Sect. 11. Son of God, by human Birth ; Luke i. 35 ... 50

Sect. 111. Son of God, in a higher Sense ; Mark i. 1, &c. . 53

Sect. iv. His Person, equally with that of the Father, sur-

passing human Knowledge . . . . . . . . . 61

Sect. v. Son of God, claiming a Parity in Power and Honour

PRINCIPAL Notes.—Michaelis on the Appellation, Son of

God; p. 82.---Scholten on the Propriety of a Man being

the Judge of Men;p.83.-Elucidations of the Phraseology

of the Evangelist John, from the Poet Nonnus ; p. 84.

Sect. vi. Son of God, One with the Father ; John x. 24–38

88

Capit. II. Passages elucidating our Lord's Use of the Appel-

lation, the Son of man . . . . . . . . . . .

98

Sect. 1. On Christ's descending from Heaven ; John iï. 13. . 103

PRINCIPAL Note.-Semler, Michaelis, and Brucker on

descending from heaven; p. 116.

Sect. 11. On his coming from above, and from Heaven ; John

iii. 31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

PRINCIPAL Notes.-On 1 Cor. xv. 47; p. 121.—Nonnus ;

Semler ; and Michaelis ; p. 122.

Sect. 111. On Christ's descending from Heaven, as the Bread

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Sect. iv. On His coming from above, and from God; John

viii. 14, &c. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Sect. v. On His Glory possessed with the Father, before the

World ; John xvii. 5. . . . . . . . . . . . 139

PRINCIPAL Notes.—On the Preposition mapá' p. 153.-

Semler, p. 155.—Calvin on the Glory of Christ ;-

D'Alembert, Servetus, Castellio, Baxter ; p. 156.

Capit. III. On our Lord's Declaration of an Existence before

. Abraham ; John viii. 58. . . . . . . . . . . 158

PrincipAL Notes.-On the Verb of Existence; pp.

160-164, 167.- Michaelis on the Argument of our Lord's

Words ; p. 181.-F. Socinus on the passage; p. 183.

Capit. IV, On the perpetual Presence of Christ promised to his

Disciples ; Matt. xxviii. 19, 20 . . . . . . . . 185

PRINCIPAL Notes.-On the Jewish Designations of large

Periods of Time; pp. 190, 191, 193, 198.-Critical Cha-

racters of Bishop Pearce, Ruhnken, and Gilbert Wake-

field ; p. 216.--On the Scriptural Descriptions of the

Intercession of Christ ; p. 218.—Hegesippus on the De-

scendants of the Apostle Jude, and Mosheim's Opinion ;

p. 219.

Capit. V. On the perpetual Presence of Christ promised to

worshipping Assemblies : Matt. xviiii. 20. . . . . . 221

Capit. VI. On our Lord's Declarations of his personal Agency

in the Resurrection of the Dead, and the final Judgment 236

PRINCIPAL Notes.—Michaelis and Koppe on Rom. xiv. 10;

p. 242.—The Doctrine of the Jews, that the Messiah

would be the Author of the universal Resurrection; p. 245.

-The Neologists, Eberhard and Röhr; p. 253.—Mr.

Belsham's opinion, p. 254.